India Travel Guide for First-Time Visitors
India is not one trip. It is roughly six trips stacked into one country, and the biggest mistake first-time visitors make is trying to see all of them in two weeks. Pick...
A short, practical guide to each city in : what is worth your time, how long it takes, and when to go.
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Darjeeling is a colonial hill station at around two thousand metres, built on tea, with Kanchenjunga visible from the ridge...
West BengalJaipur is the easiest introduction to Rajasthan: a planned eighteenth-century city with its palaces, bazaars and forts inside a compact...
RajasthanJaisalmer is a living fort city in the Thar desert, built from yellow sandstone that turns gold at sunset, with...
RajasthanKochi is a port city with Portuguese, Dutch, Jewish and Chinese layers stacked on each other, and Fort Kochi is...
KeralaMumbai is India at its fastest: colonial-era architecture, the largest film industry on earth, and a local train network that...
MaharashtraRishikesh sits where the Ganga leaves the Himalaya, and it works as two towns at once: a pilgrimage centre and...
UttarakhandUdaipur is built around a chain of artificial lakes, which makes it the gentlest city in Rajasthan: slower, greener and...
RajasthanVaranasi is among the oldest continuously inhabited cities in the world, and life along its ghats is lived in public:...
Uttar PradeshIndia is not one trip. It is roughly six trips stacked into one country, and the biggest mistake first-time visitors make is trying to see all of them in two weeks. Pick...
There is no single best time to visit India. There is a best time for the region you picked, and those windows barely overlap. October to March: the main season Clear skies...